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[No. 14]
After Schedule 2, insert the following new Schedule:
§ "INCREASE OF CERTAIN WIDOW'S AND CHILDREN'S PENSIONS IN NORTHERN IRELAND
§ 1. The enactments in relation to which section 9 of this Act has effect by virtue of section 9(8) are—
- (a) Part XIII of the County Courts Act (Northern Ireland) 1959 (relating to county court judges and clerks of the Crown and peace), in relation to which the references in section 9 of this Act to section 7(4), section 8 and section 11 (or sections 10 and 11) of the Act of 1950 shall be replaced, respectively, by references to section 126(4) of the County Courts Act (Northern Ireland) 1959, section 127 of that Act and section 13 of the Judicial Pensions Act (Northern Ireland) 1951;
- (b) the Resident Magistrates' Pensions Act (Northern Ireland) 1960, in relation to which—
- (i) subsection (4)(c) of section 9 of this Act and the reference in subsection (6) to sections 10 and 11 of the Act of 1950 shall not apply; and
- (ii) the references in section 9 to section 7(4) and section 8 of the Act of 1950 shall be replaced, respectively, by references to section 8(4) and section 9 of the Resident Magistrates' Pensions Act (Northern Ireland) 1960;
- (c) Part II of the Judicial Pensions Act (Northern Ireland) 1951 (relating, by virtue of later enactments, to the National Insurance Commissioners, the President of the Industrial Court and the President of the Industrial Tribunals), in relation to which—
- (i) subsection (4)(c) of section 9 of this Act and the reference in subsection (6) to sections 10 and 11 of the Act of 1950 shall not apply; and
- (ii) the references in section 9 in section 7(4) and section 8 of the Act of 1950 shall be replaced respectively, by references to section 10(4) and section 11 of the Judicial Pensions Act (Northern Ireland) 1951.
§ 2. In relation to the provisions to which section 9 of this Act applies by virtue of paragraph 1(a) or of paragraph 1(b) above references in section 9 to relevant service shall have effect as references to service within the meaning of those provisions.
§ 3. In relation to any of the provisions to which section 9 of this Act applies by virtue of paragraph 1 above, the expression "enactment" in section 9(6) shall mean enactment of the Parliament of Northern Ireland or amendable by Act of that Parliament; and section 9(7) shall not apply, but regulations for purposes of section 9 may be made with the consent of the Ministry of Finance for Northern Ireland by the Ministry of Home Affairs for Northern Ireland or, in relation to the Judicial Pensions Act (Northern Ireland) 1951, the Ministry of Health and Social Services for Northern Ireland, and shall be subject to negative resolution within the meaning of section 41(6) of the Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954 as if they were a statutory instrument within the meaning of that Act."
§ 4.46 p.m.
§ THE LORD CHANCELLORMy Lords, this is a new Schedule designed to modify the new clause on the increase of widows' and children's pensions in its application to certain judicial officers in Northern Ireland. These are county court judges, clerks of the Crown and peace, certain resident magistrates, National Insurance commissioners, the President of the Industrial Court and the President of the Industrial Tribunals. This, I think, is consequential on what we have decided, although details have to be spelt out at considerable length. I beg to move.
§ Moved, That this House doth agree with the Commons in the said Amendment.—(The Lord Chancellor.)
§ On Question, Motion agreed to.